2010: A Year for Sequels?

It's no shocker to anyone that Hollywood is churning out less and less original ideas to us, the audience. These sequels are popping out quicker than Octomom's kids, what with a new Nanny McPhee movie coming out, 2 Avatar sequels being planned by Cameron himself, and if anybody saw G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra, it was literally setting itself up for a sequel. This year, the movies that I am definitely going to see that are sequels (and probably you guys too) are Shrek Forever After, Iron Man 2, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and Toy Story 3. That is a LOT of movies. Yet sequels seem to be the ones that produce the most $$$. Take for instance the top 10 movies of 2009; 6 out of 10 of them were sequels, New Moon, Battle of the Smithsonian, Angels & Demons, Revenge of the Fallen, Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Half-Blood Prince. (I only saw 1.) If Hollywood is going to be unoriginal, they need to making ADAPTIONS of other media instead of more of the same movies. I personally would like to see "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" on the big screen, or an adaption of Sara Gruen's novel "Water for Elephants." All I'm saying in short is people want MORE of the new and fresh instead of some retread of something people are starting to get sick of.

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